Bike is back from repairs so it's time for a Leicester city cycle tour, first one in a while. Also first winter ride of my adult life I think! The gloves went back in the bag after the first hill however.
#leicester #cycling #cycleinfra #ActiveTravel This is the A563/A5630 Anstey Lane rbt. Despite Leics CC recently upgrading it, only one arm is signalised although the cycle route crosses at least two. 3 lanes of busy traffic on each arm. Less confident or mobile users have absolutely no chance.

Ooh shiny! Another bridge opening this week, Pooley Bridge in Cumbria, replacing an 18th-century stone arch bridge that was washed away by Storm Desmond in 2015. The new bridge features an interesting construction detail (image: newsandstar.co.uk/news/18818020.…) 1/ The bridge is the first highways bridge in the UK to use structural stainless steel! To avoid the new bridge being washed away again, no piers in the river were permitted, so the bridge needed to span 40m - and also needed to be built over winter to avoid the tourist season 2/

Some recent discussion has prompted me to do a quick thread on some UK road gantries (Disclaimer: Not A Designer). You may have noticed the latest road gantries have different designs and look bigger, & bulkier, than previous designs 1/ #roads #motorway #gantry #construction Pic 1 is of a cantilever MS4 (large square matrix display) gantry, has been around for 10yrs+, it looks very sleek, slender and unobtrusive - contrast to pic 2, also for an MS4, which looks far bigger and bulkier 2/

I've had some time to digest the recently-released Leicester City Street Design Guide, thread 1/: #leicester #cycleinfra #streets leicester.gov.uk/media/186708/l… Streets are often our first interaction with the built environment, its what you step out into when you leave your building. Streets can make or break a nice place to live, and form many functions - providing some open space, allowing transport, and carrying utilities to homes 2/

This weekend #engineering talk on....cranes! Cranes are used widely however they are generally used for lifting heavy/awkward things, so their use is strictly controlled & planned to ensure it all happens safely 1/ Lifting operations in the UK are legislated by the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 - this is a UK law that governs how lifts are carried out, and places legal requirements on suppliers of cranes & those planning lifts 2/

Lots of angry people in Nottingham currently due to delays caused by the #A52 #CliftonBridge emergency closure over the River Trent, so a quick thread to help explain why these sorts of things happen (and why we can expect more of them) 1/ There are two bridges over the Trent at Clifton; the west bridge (on left in photo) opened in 1958. The east bridge (closed) opened in 1972. It is an unusual arrangement in that on the northbound A52, the lanes split with lane 1 using the west bridge & lane 2 using the east! 2/